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THE LITTLE STINT. 



Tringa piisillu, little Sandpiper, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 95. 



., ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornitli. Diet. 



,, >, ,, Stint, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 1 15. 



,, mimtta ,, Sandpiper, Flem. Brit. An. p. 109. 



,, ,, Minute Tringa, Selby, Brit. Ornitii. vol. ii. p. 147. 



,, ,, Little Stint, .Tenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 212. 



,, ,, ,, Sandpiper, Goulu, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 



,, ,, B^casseau echasscs, Temm. Man, d'Ornilh. vol. ii. p. 624. 



The Little Sandpiper, or Little Stint, as it is also 

 called, from its diminutive size, goes through seasonal changes 

 of colour in its plumage like those observed to take place in 

 the Curlew Sandpiper and the Knot, already described, but 

 is more common in autumn than at any other period of the 

 year. The species was first mentioned by Pennant as a 

 British Bird from a specimen killed in Cambridgeshire, and 

 is most frequent on the southern and eastern shores of this 

 country. Indeed from the eastern localities that will be 



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